Friday, May 16, 2014

Thing 9

For the Taking & Editing Photos thing I looked at 2 different apps.  I originally wanted to use the Color Splurge app because I could think of many things to do with this app.  However the app had way too many problems, it would turn the photo black and white, but in order to have just one color stand out you had to paint that color onto the picture.  I have used other tools where you choose the color and it turns everything else black and white that are much easier to use.   Also there were way too many ads that popped up way to often.  Lastly the app kept crashing, I am kind of bummed that this app didn't work, I love being able to add or edit photos by making one color pop.

So I decided to choose a second app, the LINE Camera app.  This app allows you to have fun and edit your photos by adding filters, text and make collages.   This app did not crash and was fun to use, but it is very basic.   If you had a class set of iPads you could have the students take photos and create collages of people or things.   You could also take a photo of each child and they could use the "beauty" setting to manipulate their photograph.  They could see the different ways that you can alter a photograph to make it look "better", but this also is a perfect option because you can manipulate the photograph and it can look really creepy.  Personally a person could use this to edit photos of their own or if they do amateur photography as a business they could use it to tweak those photos of a wedding or other event that they shot.

There are lots of different photography apps and photo manipulation apps out there, the point is you need to check them out and find out what will work best for your needs.  There are a lot of ways to use this app both personally and professionally.   These apps, while cheaper then buying PhotoShop or some other photo editing software are great but they also have their limits and should be practiced with a lot before just deciding that this will work and trying to use the app and finding that it doesn't.

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